More Support for More-Support: The role of processing constraints on the choice between synthetic and analytic comparative forms
Britta Mondorf
This book provides the most comprehensive account so far of novel and hitherto unexplained factors operative in the choice between synthetic (prouder) and analytic (more proud ) comparatives. It argues that the underlying motivation in using the analytic variant is to mitigate processing demands –… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 4] 2009. xi, 222 pp.